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Defined Benefit
TPT’s superfund and CDC push signals wider potential for private markets
TPT’s expansion into alternative structures for pension funds highlights how larger allocations to illiquid assets can be utilised during the retirement phase
Railpen’s Anna Rule on private markets and pensions policy
Private Markets Profile caught up with Anna Rule to discuss the main talking points of the Pensions UK Investment Conference
Inside Phoenix Group’s push to scale private markets across annuities and DC
As buyout volumes surge and DC reform gathers pace, Phoenix is building an integrated private markets platform to source assets at scale and sharpen its competitive edge.
Running on: DB schemes extend their investment horizons
Improved funding and lighter regulation are prompting well-funded pension schemes to delay buyout and pursue longer-term allocations to private credit, infrastructure debt and other illiquids
UK pension funds rethink their endgames
Van Lanschot Kempen’s Jonathan Craddock and Alastair Greenlees discuss why more UK DB pension schemes are opting to ‘run on’ rather than seek a buyout and what this means for allocations to private markets
USS provides masterclass in private markets
The UK’s leading non-governmental DB pension scheme investor in private markets talks to PMP about building its exposures over almost twenty years
TPT builds scale one block at a time
CEO and head of investment management tell PMP how the scheme consolidator uses its building block strategy to achieve economies of scale across multiple types of pension proposition
Clara targets the DB private markets conundrum
ClaraPensions CEO tells PMP that illiquid allocations do not have to be a barrier for defined benefit pension schemes seeking to secure an insurer buyout